In December 2007, Jiang Yan committed suicide by jumping from a Beijing office block. It soon emerged that her husband Wang Fei had left her for another woman, leaving the 31-year-old determined to end her life. Moreover, she had been chronicling her spiraling despair in an online blog, which was opened for public view just before the end. The initial entry read: “Two months from now is the day I leave … for a place no one knows me, that is new to me,” and continued in a similar vein for 46 sorrow-filled posts. The topic soon shot to the top of Tianya forum message boards as furious users demanded that the adulterous husband and his new lover be expelled from the city. “We should take revenge on that couple and drown them in our spit,” wrote one user. Wang became reviled across China as his cell-phone number, student ID and work contacts became public knowledge. “If you ever meet these two, tear their skin off,” posted another enraged netizen.
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